The
colours made of red silk. The size is about 267x267 cm (4 ½ aln x 4 ½ aln). The
numbers in the Trophy collection of the Armemuseum (Stockholm) are ST 21:114,
ST 21:115,1 & ST 21:115,2. The cross on the colours is unusual for Pre-Peter
the Great’s Russian colours, but was used in Lithuania & Poland. So, I
assume, that they belonged to unknown choragwies of Lithuanian infantry. There
were 7 of them at Saladen, but I don’t have any details about their names &
strength.

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Interesting theory. In Russian text you wrote that ALL colours at Saladen belonged previously to streltsy regiments. Does it apply to infantry also (I dont know if there were Russian infanty there). Do you have OOB for Saladen ?

English & Russian parts of my posts are equal in general, but they are not word-by-word translations.

In the Russian part I wrote that 42 out of 45 trophied colours are Russians. And all of them (42) belonged to the disbanded Moscow Streltzy regiments. 15 of them have embroidered regimental names. The rest are unnamed but they are typical Streltzy colours (I have images all of them).

The 3 colours from my post have decorations which were unusuall for pre-Peter's army but were used by Lithuanians

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